Susan Tuthill, nominated recently as a Daily News Hometown Hero for what the paper described as an “ambitious glow-in-the-dark fun house project,” led her art students at Brownsville Academy HS in Brooklyn on a yearlong Ride to Wacky Whimsicality. As part of the project, students redesigned the school’s large art gallery as a four-section, illuminated fun house featuring sunken ships, deep sea creatures and mermaid grottoes that included an interactive submarine ride with sound effects and an uproarious script. The show, open to the public from the grand opening on May 8 to the end of the school year, exhibited work from eight units in the Studio Art curriculum including three-dimensional drawing, painting, sculpture and art installation. A student movie of how the exhibition evolved from start to finish was also on view. Her students’ earlier creation of a ready-to-move-into-studio apartment made out of found objects was featured in the Sept. 4 issue of the New York Teacher.